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Home > The Off Farm Income Podcast > OFI 625: Sharing A Barn With The Cousins And Continuing A Family Tradition | FFA SAE Edition | McKenna Woodruff | Western Reserve High School FFA


	Podcast:		The Off Farm Income Podcast
	Episode:		OFI 625: Sharing A Barn With The Cousins And Continuing A Family Tradition \| FFA SAE Edition \| McKenna Woodruff \| Western Reserve High School FFA
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:24:28
	Publish Date:		2019-06-10 01:30:25
	Description:		SHOW NOTES *INTRODUCING MCKENNA WOODRUFF!* There is something special about the story we get to tell today. It has to do with family tradition and growing up around an extended family. Maybe many of you have had this experience. I did not, but I got to witness it whenever I went back to my families original farm about 100 miles away from where I grew up. On Highland Road in Fresno County, California my grandparents lived in an old farm house on what was the family farm. My grandfather’s nephew’s house as well as two of my cousins, one who was the best man in my wedding, was on the opposite side of the road. We have cousins all over Fresno County. I am close with some of them, there are some that I kind of know and some that I don’t know at all. But my cousins on Highland had those relatives around all the time, and everyone was involved in farming. Our guest today, McKenna Woodruff, describes a situation that reminds me so much of my childhood when we would visit my grandparents. Her father and her uncle are farming together on the old family farm, and they live next door to each other. So, McKenna has her cousins around constantly. McKenna and her cousins share a barn for raising their goats and pigs. They help each other out, practice for their shows and have a lot of fun. In addition to all of this McKenna is a three sport athlete, running cross country, playing basketball and running track. She is very busy but is having a blast, and I enjoyed telling her story. SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Goat & Pork Production *HIGH SCHOOL:* Western Reserve High School; Collins, Ohio *MASCOT:* Rough Riders *FFA ADVISOR:* Mark Starkey CONTACT INFORMATION FOR MCKENNA WOODRUFF: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Western Reserve High School Website: McKenna’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: mstarkey@western-reserve.org Western Reserve High School Telephone Number: (419) 660.8508 FFA LINKS: National FFA Organization Supervised Agricultural Experiences (SAE’s) Support FFA Donate to FFA – One way that FFA students are able to start small businesses is through an FFA grant of $1,000. In 2014, 141 FFA students received these grants. With your donations, more students can get this head start – *pay it forward.* REASONS TO DONATE TO FFA: Only 2% of Americans grow and raise most of the food and livestock consumed by the other 98% as well as the rest of the world. FFA is providing the needed education, training and resources to Americans that will carry that torch forward and insure that America continues to have inexpensive, quality food. Rural Communities will rely on entrepreneurship in the future for population growth and job creation. The FFA is a major catalyst to that entrepreneurial growth. Farmers, ranchers and those working in agriculture give the rest of America incredible amounts of freedom because the search for food is as simple as going to the grocery store: “The future of American agriculture depends on the involvement and investment in America’s youth, In order to prepare for the population of tomorrow, we need to encourage America’s youth today, and show that careers in agriculture are profitable, rewarding, and vital.”. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue Where Off-Farm Income And Matt Brechwald Can Be Heard: Member Of The National Association Of Farm Broadcasters
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